Course
Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)
Course
Cost: $375.00 member
$425.00 non-member
Other Costs: Required for all students -
CLASS
Manual $59.95 - Pre-K, Forms - $39.95(Contact
us for
more details)
Course
Number: LIT239
Course
Description: This
two-day workshop will help teach you skills to use the CLASS instrument to assess classroom quality. The course will
provide information on the theoretical and empirical foundations
of CLASS as well as procedures to
familiarize you with
CLASS dimensions, to help you practice coding from master-coded
video, and complete an observation reliability test. During the
training you will learn about the common metric and vocabulary
that is used to describe various aspects of quality across early
childhood. Students will learn about the
domains and dimensions used by class and how to define and
assess classroom quality across their pre--school program.
Students will learn about the interaction between teachers and
students in three domains:
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Emotional Support
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Classroom Organization
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Instructional Support
Prerequisite: None
Learning Objectives: Upon completion, you will be able to:
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Conduct a set of pre-training
exercises on your own
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cover the background information on
the CLASS
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practice scoring using classroom
video
Target Audience: This course is for those who seek
to conduct CLASS observations in classrooms or are using video
tapes. Typical
trainees
include researchers, administrators, university teacher
educators, classroom observers, coaches and mentors, and quality
rating system evaluators.
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